Many
citizens believe we are living in a dangerous era of governments run
by despots, idiots and the insane. Apathy had set in the growing middle-of-the-road
independent electorate. A majority of states are floating in a sea
of bankruptcy. Politicians claim the solution is to raise taxes, increase
regulations and change laws without legal procedural process. People
do not think they can change the storm clouds of political doom. But
the one change mechanism has not changed: the ballot box. It is still
the only means to reverse the plight that plagues average citizens'
daily lives. As a result, a record number of early voters are heading
to the polls for the highly contested midterms. Normally, the incumbent
president loses seats in Congress. But many historians think midterms
are a report card on the economy and not the presidency. Record employment,
a higher (but rollercoaster) stock market and growth in domestic manufacturing
has been partially set off by a continuing tariff war with China.
If people are content with the status quo, they will not vote for
change. the national media has not been covering the stories of average
American voters, but spending resources on unreliable polls and mud-slinging
insults by party leaders and the president.